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Yep. 11 was my breaking point. I don't really care how easy or difficult Linux is, I'm done with Windows. (On the upside: holy cow some computers work way bet
by Groxx 1y ago
Yep. 11 was my breaking point.
I don't really care how easy or difficult Linux is, I'm done with Windows.
(On the upside: holy cow some computers work way better with Linux. A crappy $100 Chromebook I had lying around gets over 30 hours of battery life with my normal use now, it's insane. It has become my go-to "just chuck it in a bag for whatever" machine because I can forget to charge it for weeks and it's fine)
- -__---____-ZXyw 1y agoWhat model chromebook, and what distro do you run on it? Sounds lovely!
- Groxx 1y agoAn "IdeaPad 3 CB 11IGLO5" apparently, likely from mid 2020. And it's just vanilla Mint + XFCE, I haven't done anything to optimize it. It ain't fast, but it is definitely fast enough for normal web / writing / etc, and 4GB of ram goes a lot further than I expected (with Firefox and a few dozen tabs, I'm at around 2GB used, and I almost never touch even 3GB). My only real complaint is the pretty crappy screen, it's one of those cheap LCDs that drastically changes color/contrast/etc as you move away from the tiny perfect viewing angle... but that screen is probably a moderate amount of the reason why the battery lasts so long. When fully charged and on low brightness, Mint claims I have ~77h of battery life. It's definitely over-estimating, but 30 is totally reachable while I'm doing my normal stuff (likely not on high brightness tho). And when closed I lose like 2%/week, noticeably better than any other laptop I've ever had.